London-Paris via the Chunnel

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Day one: London-Paris

I met Tricia, my friend from Florida, in London-Gatwick airport around noon. We grabbed some sandwiches at M & S Simply food (I Love their sandwiches and wish they had them here in the US) to take on the train ride to Paris via the Chunnel. Once we got on the train, the trip to Paris was pretty uneventful. The Chunnel is not nearly the exciting as we imagined. It was about a four hour ride. After arriving in Paris' Nord Station, we took the metro to the St. Sulpice stop and stopped a girl on the street to see if she had any idea where we needed to go to get to our flat. My friend's ex-husband (a Parisian) was nice enough to let us use his flat (he usually rents it out) for a few days. It was a 6 floor walk up (111 steps) with a view of the Eiffel Tower. It was already about 730pm by the time we arrived, so we just stayed in, and looked at the Eiffel Tower out the window, the first night. We were in Paris...in the Springtime. What could be better? The next day we headed out to walk around the city. After having breakfast outside at a cafe and walking for about 3 hours, we decided to buy a ticket on one of the hop on, hop off tour buses. We thought that would be the only way to squeeze in all the must see spots in the 2 days we had.

We got totally lost, several times, in the St. Germain district. We had ice cream at Berthillon on Île Saint-Louis. We visited famous graves in Pere Lachaise cemetery. We drove by the Louvre. We walked under the Eiffel Tower. We walked around Notre Dam. We at pastries. We walked along the Seine. We drove through the sex district. We walked around Luxembourg Park.

Paris is beautiful. I wish we were here longer. Next time.....

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Photos

Easy Jet wing
The Pyrenees from the air on my flight from Barcelona to London

Tricia's Virgin Air wing
Her flight from Orlando to London

San Pancras station
Me in London

Tricica in San Pancras Station
London

Me boarding the Eurostar
London-Paris

Tricia boarding the Eurostar
London-Paris

Tricia
Leaning out of our flat window in Paris

Velib bicycles
For hire throughout Paris

Jardin du Luxembourg Park
Paris

Worker's Demonstration
Paris

Notre Dam
Paris

Notre Dam
Paris

Notre Dam
Paris

Back of Notre Dam
Paris

Birdman of Notre Dam
Paris

Comments

[Dave]

Living Through You!
Nt travels or somewhat these days so I enjoying see your blog. It is hard to get a good picture of some things like Notre Dame. You just can not capture that in the lens it seems. At least I was never comfortable with my pics of it. I did not see the cemetery when I was there. It looks interesting. Did you enjoy the Louvre. I just went to the 3 big things and then went and saw the Dutch painters work. How long did you spend in the Louvre? Best wishes and keep the bogs coming!

[Lani]

No Louvre :(
Sad to say, but we never even went in the Louvre. We didn't feel like standing in the forever long queue to get in. Maybe next time. When the dollar is better, I want to go back and spend more time. A few days is just not enough.

[Travis]

translation
Hi, The translation is actually.. "Street of the cat who fishes" Anyway, nice photos